Welcome to Part 2 of the Coop Restoration series. In this post, I’ll go over the cleanup that I did this past weekend. The coop started out in rough shape. There were rolls of old insulation, mouse nests, mold… It had been used as a storage space for transient garbage for years. Below are some pictures after I pulled out the worst of the insulation. You can see some of the nest in the back left corner behind the cabinets and dog crate.
One of the wonderful things about our homestead is that we inherited several outbuildings. We have a large post-and-beam barn (40 x 60), equipment shed (16 x 24), storage shed (14 x 24 + lean-to), and a rather large chicken coop turned racing pigeon coop (14 x 24). Yes, you read that right. The previous owners really loved their racing pigeons and converted a perfectly good chicken coop into a palatial (for a pigeon) loft!
It’s dark in there… As the missus and I sit and talk about our new homestead and the directions that we are thinking about taking it, one problem keeps coming up: the old Christmas tree stand. You see, dear reader, our homestead used to be a Christmas tree farm back in the 80s. Unfortunatly, the previous owners decided not to keep the farm going and let the trees grow up.